A near-purebred landrace sativa from the mountains outside Acapulco, which travellers carried north in the 1960s and which has stayed in circulation ever since. Landrace means it was not bred in a tent: this is what the plant looked like where it grew.

Is Acapulco Gold indica or sativa?

Sativa, about as clearly as the category gets.

Most of what sits on a California shelf today is four or five crosses deep. This is the other end of that history, and it is worth trying once for that reason alone.